To savour victory one must face defeat. — Alan Payne, Bayview Road, Invergowrie.

All types of flying insects are coming in my house from these overgrown shrubs.

I phoned the department but got no response. — Wellgate Disgrace.

Mothers and wheelchair users have to watch bus after bus pass without being able to board because it’s a double- decker or there is no space.

One mum on the Arbroath Road on July 24 had several buses pass before squeezing in beside my friend and her child.

That was the third bus we had waited for from Charleston as the others were double-deckers. — Angry.

AS A regular user of Travel Dundee buses, I feel standards have slipped. I have been on buses that broke down or the ticket machine did not work. There have also been buses that did not turn up.

I hear other passengers complaining about the service.

Travel Dundee could learn from Strathtay Scottish, who treat you as a customer they want to travel with them again. — Daily User.

What he doesn’t state is there is something else we don’t see.

We don’t see the governments of the UK or USA desperate to intervene either.

Why is that? They just couldn’t wait to get to Iraq, which turned out to be no threat to us whatsoever, and it also now turns out they knew all along there was no threat.

The reason the media talks about weapons of mass destruction is that this was the reason Tony Blair gave for invasion.

It was not regime change or humanitarianism.

The writer says at least Tony did something to stop the murder and torture. So, tell me, what’s been going on in Abu Ghraib prison if it’s not murder and torture?

Human Being also states the people are now free of Saddam Hussein and it’s not the coalition killing people. Doesn’t he or she watch the news? Thousands of Iraqi civilians have died during the conflict.

“It is the gangsters and scavengers who smell the opportunity of profit and power”, he or she writes, obviously talking about the US administration and certain companies. — News Watcher.

I AGREE with letter writer Human Being over the situation in Sudan. The silence in the UK is deafening.

The Arab militia are attacking fellow Muslims and the reason for this escapes me.

As for the Iraqi problem, Human Being is missing the point. We invaded Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, not primarily to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

Tony Blair was convinced that such weapons existed.

He got his information from the notorious dossiers and went on and on in the Commons about the 45 minutes it would take to prepare and launch these weapons.

The ease with which the Americans reached Baghdad was soon explained when the Iraqis began fighting back.

It reminds me of the Second World War when the Germans invaded Russia and advanced very quickly only for the Russians behind their lines to harass them as winter took its toll of the ill-equipped Germans.

The issue of pamphlets by the Government telling us how to prepare for a terrorist attack is a chilling reminder of my childhood when we were issued with gas masks in 1938.

I hope Tony Blair and his ministers enjoy their summer break. I have a feeling they will need all their strength on return. — R. F.

The problem is on the east-bound lanes of Dock Street, just to the east of the new traffic lights outside Matalan. There is around an inch or so of water constantly flowing. While it is not inconveniencing drivers, it is a waste.

I hope somebody is poised to take action. — Fife Commuter.